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Camborne
Summary
Camborne (Cambron, Kammbronn) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove.
Camborne was formerly one of the richest tin mining areas in the world and home to the Camborne School of Mines.
Craig Weatherhill explains Camborne thus: "Cambron c. 1100 - 1816) Cambron, ?'crook-hill')"
Kammbronn is Cornish for 'crooked hill'. The word 'kamm', crooked, is sometimes used in the Breton language, and the Welsh and Irish Gaelic word is 'cam'.
Camborne is in the western part of the largest urban and industrial area in Cornwall with the town of Redruth east. It is the ecclesiastical centre of a large civil parish and has a town council. Camborne-Redruth is on the northern side of the Carn Brea/Carnmenellis granite upland which slopes northwards to the sea. The two towns are linked by the A3047 road which was turnpiked in 1839 and the villages along the road (from the west) were Roskear, Tuckingmill, Pool and Illogan. Running north-south are a number of small streams with narrow river valleys which have been deeply-cut following centuries of tin streaming and other industrial processes. An example is the Red River valley which crosses the A3047 at Tuckingmill. To the north, the A30 (road) forms a boundary between the urban area and the agricultural land on the other side.
The UK Met Office operate an Upper Air Station in Camborne.
The first mention of the medieval Camborne churchtown is in 1181 although in 1931 the ruins of a probable Romano-British villa were found at Magor Farm, Illogan, near Camborne, and excavated that year under the guidance of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
There are also early Christian sites such as an inscribed altar stone, (now in the Church of St Martin and St Meriadoc), and dated to the 10th or 11th centuries, which attests to the existence of a settlement then.
Langdon (1896) records seven stone crosses in the parish of which two are at Pendarves.
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